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James Gross is an associate professor with the Electrical Engineering School of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm since November 2012. He also serves as vice director for the ACCESS Linneaus Centre and is a member of the board of KTH’s Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems. His research interests are broadly in the area of mobile systems & networks, with a focus on critical machine-to-machine communications, cellular networks, resource allocation as well as performance evaluation methods (in particular stochastic network calculus as well as network simulation). Prior to joining KTH, he was assistant professor and head of the Mobile Network Performance Group at RWTH Aachen University from 2008 – 2012 as well as a member of the DFG-funded UMIC research centre of RWTH. James studied at TU Berlin and UC San Diego, and received his PhD from TU Berlin in 2006.
James has published about 100 (peer-reviewed) papers in international journals and conferences. His work has been awarded multiple times, among them the best paper awards at ACM MSWiM 2015, the best demo paper award at IEEE WoWMoM 2015, the best paper award at IEEE WoWMoM 2009 and the best paper award at European Wireless 2009. In 2007, James was the recipient of the ITG/KuVS dissertation award for his PhD thesis.
James’ work has been funded by various different agency, among them national science foundations in Germany and Sweden as well as technology transfer organizations like BMBF and Vinnova while his work was also directly funded by various different companies. Over the last three years, James has been principle investigator for over ten projects. Apart from publications, his work has had impact on wireless networking standards and lead to various patents. James has lead a team of researchers recently to build one of the world-wide first wireless systems realizing critical machine-to-machine communications. This work has led in summer 2015 to the formation of the spin-off company R3 Communications.